XJ Dreamin'
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- Location
- Huntsville, Texas
A couple of years ago my folks called out of the blue from MO. Their steam locomotive group was driving their engine down to Temple to pull excursions for the Burlington employee appreciation days but my Dad had a doctor's appointment and couldn't ride along.
So my Dad says he's looking at the road atlas map of Texas. If they fly into Houston at 11:00am could we pick them up and take them to Temple?
Well, lets see Dad: that's 1:45 to Hobbie, 1:45 back to Huntsville, then 4:00 to Temple and 4:00 back to Huntsville again. How about we bring you up to Huntsville and you rent a car the next morning? Sometimes even an engineer can forget to check the scale.
When my brother was in the hospital at Lacland we drove to San Antonio every weekend. We'd leave after work Friday and get back to work Monday morning. Hail, it's 14 hours just to get the boys up to MO to see their Grandparents.
The only thing stoppin' us is time and money. After that it's easy :laugh3: :laugh3:
So my Dad says he's looking at the road atlas map of Texas. If they fly into Houston at 11:00am could we pick them up and take them to Temple?
Well, lets see Dad: that's 1:45 to Hobbie, 1:45 back to Huntsville, then 4:00 to Temple and 4:00 back to Huntsville again. How about we bring you up to Huntsville and you rent a car the next morning? Sometimes even an engineer can forget to check the scale.
When my brother was in the hospital at Lacland we drove to San Antonio every weekend. We'd leave after work Friday and get back to work Monday morning. Hail, it's 14 hours just to get the boys up to MO to see their Grandparents.
The only thing stoppin' us is time and money. After that it's easy :laugh3: :laugh3: